Fannish 5: Pregnancy...
Five unfortunate uses of pregnancy as a plot device.:
- Scully's pregnancy in X-Files.
- Amy Pond's wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey pregnancies in Doctor Who.
- The alternate Olivia's pregnancy in Fringe. Okay, the pregnancy plot itself is/was really good. But having alternate Walter interfere, having the childbirth turned into one of thoe instant/magical things - not so smooth. An unusual clumsiness in a superb show.
- The Scarlet Witch's imaginary/magical pregnancy in Marvel comics. It was absurd, and it was a disappointing climax to what had been a good storyline. And guess what? They've picked it up again and made something quite interesting of it - for instance, Wiccan's identity and his search for his mother in Children's Crusade. Subsequent stories have made me forgive the situation that existed in the first place.
- Children of Men, where the pregnancy is simply unexplained because it is unexplainable. That's cheap.